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' HABVESTER REEL. No. 286,629. Patented Oct. 16, 1883.

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NEITED STATES PATEN FFIQE.

WILLIAM F. OLIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO VILLIAM DEERING, OF SAME PLACE.

HARVESTER-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,629, dated October 16, 1883.

Application filed December 26, 1882. (No model.]

To all whont it floaty concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. OLIN, a

I citizen of the United States, residing at Ch ioago,

in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harvester-Reels, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a front view; Fig.2, an end view as seen from'the stubble end of the machine, and Fig. 3 a perspective view.

The object of my invention is to provide a reel that may be readily adjusted to any desired position, and especially to make it capable of adjustment back' and forth while in its lowermost position-that is to sa may have a range of adjustment to or from the cutting apparatus in a fore-and-aft direction.

In the drawings, A is a part of the frame of the harvester, and B and B posts reaching 1 upward therefrom, and of such length andinelinat-ion as to hold the reelwhen supported thereon in its proper approximate position in relation to the cutting apparatus.

C is a ring mounted upon the post B and rigidly bolted thereto. Projecting inward to the center, and from the uppermost part of the ring, is the arm 0. 1

B is a circular toothed locking-plate, rigidly secured on the post B parallel with said ring C. At the center of said lockingplate B and at the end of G areeyes forming bearings for the rock-shaft E. r

Keyed or otherwise secured to the rock-shaft arethe arms 1) and 1), parallel with each other, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, in length a'little less than the inner radius of the ring 0, and provided with the large eyes in their outward extremities, which form bearings for the reel- Shaft G.

To the left-hand end of the shaft E, as viewed in Fig. 1, and outside of the fixed lockingplate B, is adjustably secured the lever E. The set-screw 6* (see Fig. 1) serves as means for such adjustment. This lever is provided with the latch e rod 6', bent latch-lever e and spring c, all outside of the lever, excepting a part of the latch itself, which reaches through a hole in the lever and engages in the teeth in the locking-plate B By using alocking-plate in-the form of a wheel the lever may By unlatcharm 0, which is placed in the position in which 4 it is never necessary or even desirable to place the reel, andhence it is practically no obstruction to the free adjustment of the reel. The reel-shaft is permitted to have a movement of about nine-tenths of a circle; but it is not necessary to swing it at once from one extreme to the other, and hence noextreme movement of the lever is required.

If the machinebe working in grain in acondition such that the reel is required to be well upward andforward in most of its adjustments, the lever is set in relation to the shaft E and its arms, as shown in the figures.

- 7 I provide the locking-plate B". with teeth in its entire circumference, which permits its being locked in any ,position, whatever its di' rection or position of adjustment in relation to the roclcshaft E, By this means the lever may be kept in a convenient position in relation to the attendant.

F is a sprocket-wheel driven by the chain f, whiehis connected with the haIvester-gearin g. In one piece with the sprocket-wheel is cast the pinion f and both revolve freely on the rock-shaft E. f is a pinion secured to the end of the reel-shaft G, and fiis an intermediate idlepinion. It is thus seen that the motion given the sprocket-wheel is transmitted to the reel-shaft, and they revolve in the same direction.

The advantages of the construction here shown will be apparent to those familiar with the use of harvesters and need not be pointed out, except to place particularstress upon the perfect freedom of vertical adj ustmen-t, whether the reel is forward of the axis of vibration or in rear of it, and also the freedom of adjustment fore and aft when low, as in operating in lodged grain.

I am aware that reels have been made t vibrate upon their support, but their movements have been obstructed by the posts that support their axis. By providing the down' hanging support the reel is free to move to any desirable position, the arm 0 occupying' a position in which the reel-shaft is never required to be. I am not aware that reels have been geared in the manner shown, nor that the Y rock-shaft has been provided with an adjustable adjusting-lever.

with the ring 0, the latter having the downhanging arm, forming a support, all combined 20 with the rock-shaft E, substantially s described.

4. The rock-shaft carrying the reel-shaft, in combination with the adjustable adjustinglever E and the circular locking-plate, sub- 25 stantially, as and for the purpose described.

5. The combination of the rock-shaft, the reelshaft supported and vibrated thereby, and provided with the pinion, the sprocket-wheel and pinion located on the axis of vibration, 0 and the intermediate idle-pinion, substantially as and for the purpose described.

XVILLIAM F. OLIN. lVit-nesses;

J. F. STEWARD, J'oHN B. KAsPARI. 

